San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud.

Nehemiah Joel Weaver pleaded guilty in September 2022 to bank fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. He admitted to using the identities of at least 15 people, a group that included UCSD students, his former supervisor, and a former girlfriend. Weaver’s co-defenda... More...   $0 (07-07-2023 - CA)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with downloading and viewing child pornography.

Gregory Allen Kirk, 63, of Owasso, Oklahoma admitted that from about May 2018 through January 2020, he received at least 600 images of child pornography on his computer, which consisted of visual depictions of minor children, under 12 years old, engaged in sexually explic... More...   $0 (07-06-2023 - OK)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with two counts of making false statements designed to influence a bank, one count of money laundering, and one count of contempt.

Allison Marie Baver, 42, of Taylorsville, Utah, submitted eight fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications for her company, Allison Baver Entertainment LLC (ABE). P... More...   $0 (06-30-2023 - UT)

Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

On May 31, 2023, the United States filed a one count information charging Carleena Graham, 56, of Accokeek, Maryland, with wire fraud. The defendant pleaded guilty to that charge today. According to the information, the victim, World Learning, is a non-profit global development and exchange organiz... More...   $0 (06-30-2023 - VT)

Jacksonville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.

On April 27, 2022, officers from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responded to a call from an individual who saw White waving a firearm outside of a grocery store. When Johnny Deangel... More...   $0 (06-30-2023 - FL)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with
downloading and viewing child pornography.

Gregory Allen Kirk, 63, of Owasso was charged receipt of Child Pornography.

“My office is committed to the prosecution of those who possess, distribute, or produce child pornography,” said U.S. Attorney Clinton Johnson. “I am thankful for the thorou... More...   $0 (06-29-2023 - OK)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with convicted felon with allegedly attempting to sell a firearm to an undercover officer and for possessing multiple firearms.

On June 20, 2023, Eric Donald Johnson, 25, of Layton, Utah, communicated via social media with an undercover officer assigned to the Wasatch Metro Drug Task Force (WMDTF), that he had mult... More...   $0 (06-28-2023 - UT)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Transport and Harbor Certain Aliens by taking more than $500,000 as a key member of a smuggling ring bringing hundreds of Indian Nationals across the border from Canada and then to locations in the mid-west and beyond.


“Over a four-year period, Rajinder Pal Singh arranged for more than 8... More...   $0 (06-28-2023 - WA)

Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of child pornography.

Ronald William Dougherty (52) pleaded guilty on March 30, 2023, to one count of possession of child pornography. In addition to imprisonment, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, Dougherty must register as a sex offender after completion of his prison term.More...   $0 (06-27-2023 - )

Little Rock, Arkansas criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to defraud the government in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371.

Seven defendants were sentenced to federal prison for their involvement in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of more than $11.5 million that was intended to benefit farmers who had been discriminated against. Chie... More...   $0 (06-27-2023 - AR)

Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute marijuana and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

Tyquan Armstrong, , a/k/a "Moose, admitted to being a member of a marijuana-trafficking organization that shipped large quantities of marijuana from Fresno, California, t... More...   $0 (06-16-2023 - NY)

Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, and for possessing and intending to distribute cocaine and cocaine base.

Rios, a convicted felon, pled guilty to possessing a .25 caliber Mauser handgun with six rounds of ammunition on March 30, 2019. The handgun was recovered from Rios by Troy Police Officers... More...   $0 (06-12-2023 - NY)

Columbia, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with stealing firearms from a licensed firearms dealer.

On March 6, 2022, at approximately 1:30 a.m., Christopher Cunningham, ate 34, of Columbia, South Carolina, and a co-conspirator broke into a retail store on Garner’s Ferry Road and stole two shotguns and two rifles by forcefully opening a display case in... More...   $0 (06-09-2023 - SC)

Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with arson and possession of a firearm by an illegal alien.

Evidence presented at trial, during the early morning hours of September 30, 2021, the Montgomery Fire Department (MFD) responded to a fire reported inside First Baptist Church Montgomery. The MFD was able to extinguish the blaze, but only after the church... More...   $0 (06-09-2023 - AL)

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

WILLFUL RETENTION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION/18:793
(1-31)

(a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, go... More...   $0 (06-08-2023 - FL)

Denver, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with distributing a controlled substance outside the usual course of professional practice, for structuring financial transactions in a way to evade reporting requirements, and for engaging in monetary transactions greater than $10,000 that were derived from unlawful activity.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DE... More...   $0 (06-08-2023 - CO)

Billing, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegally possessed firearms and ammunition after law enforcement found 35 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition in his residence.

On August 2022, members of the Billings Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit were surveilling a residence in Laurel when Nicholas Steven Capella, 38, and another person l... More...   $0 (06-08-2023 - MT)

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged for their roles in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mohamed Ali Hussein, ate 53, and Lul Bashir Ali, age 57, both of Faribault, admitted that between June 2020 and January 2022, they knowingly and willfully conspired with othe... More...   $0 (06-08-2023 - MN)

Medford, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with boobytrapping of a home that injured an FBI bomb technician.

On September 7, 2018, bomb technicians from Oregon State Police (OSP) and the FBI went to a property in Williams formerly owned by Gregory Lee Rodvelt, 71, a former resident of Williams, Oregon, that he had lost in lawsuit. After Rodvelt learned that a re... More...   $0 (06-06-2023 - OR)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in a COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan, and money laundering.

In May 2020, in the District of Utah and elsewhere, Chris E. McCormick, 64, of Cottonwood Heights, illegally made false representations to Mountain America Credit Union to obtain approximately $266,000 in PP... More...   $0 (06-05-2023 - UT)

Syracuse, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with hree counts of federal crop insurance fraud in connection with schemes in which he obtained more than $179,000 in crop insurance benefits for claimed losses on crops that he did not in fact suffer.

Craig Spofford, age 48, of Dolgeville, New York, admitted that he fraudulently obtained $179,051 in crop insurance ... More...   $0 (06-01-2023 - NY)

Cincinnati, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with honest services mail fraud.

Former Cincinnati City Councilman Jeff Pastor agreed to plead guilty to the public corruption charges filed against him.

18:1349 - CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT HONEST SERVICES WIRE FRAUD
(1)
18:1343, 18:1346 and 18:2 - HONEST SERVICES WIRE FRAUD
(2)
18:666(a)(1(B... More...   $0 (06-01-2023 - OH)

Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl.

Lavarance D. Nettles’s guilty plea established that on September 3, 2020, the Mobile Police Department Tactical Intelligence Unit seized eighty-four pills from the defendant’s vehicle. The pills were tested and found to contain fentanyl. Officers ... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - AL)

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with laundering money derived from his scheme to sell counterfeit artwork.

Daniel Elie Bouaziz was the owner of art galleries, to include Danieli Fine Art and Galerie Danieli, located at 226A and 230 Worth Avenue, respectively, in Palm Beach County, Florida. Bouaziz knowingly engaged in and attempted to engage in a mo... More...   $0 (05-30-2023 - FL)